Own complex technology partnership transactions, advise on strategic product initiatives and M&A diligence, and help build scalable legal playbooks while partnering across business and legal teams.
Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading Solutions
📜 Description
- Advise on legal and regulatory issues throughout product discovery, development, and launch.
- Structure, draft, and negotiate electronic trading, derivatives, prime brokerage, lending, and financing agreements.
- Research regulatory frameworks and advise leadership on compliance obligations and reputational risks.
- Develop contract templates and partner with Compliance on policies, procedures, playbooks, and staff training.
- Coordinate with business, Legal, Compliance, and external counsel on complex matters and projects.
- Communicate legal issues to internal stakeholders and provide client-facing support.
🛠️ Requirements
- 8+ years of transactional experience reviewing financial agreements, including lending, prime brokerage, ISDA/CSA, and trade confirmations.
- Strong understanding of laws and regulations for digital-asset spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading, and prime brokerage.
- Direct knowledge of digital-asset market infrastructure, including trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails.
- Experience applying traditional financial legal concepts to digital-asset business models and institutional client needs.
- Strong communication, organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage high-volume work and projects independently.
- Creative, commercially pragmatic approach; startup or early-stage company experience is valued.
- JD preferred.
Full job description
With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.
We are seeking a proactive Legal Counsel with a builder’s mindset to join our Trading Solutions team as an integral partner in bringing new products and features to the institutional market. You will be embedded directly from product discovery through launch, providing strategic legal guidance, conducting critical research, establishing policies, and ensuring full regulatory compliance across market infrastructure such as crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails.
In this role, you will lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of key counterparty agreements, including electronic trading, derivatives, and financing arrangements, while coordinating across internal teams and managing external counsel. Beyond transaction execution, you will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, delivering strategic counsel on complex regulatory frameworks, reputational risks, and ongoing compliance obligations.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of this role:
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot. About Anchorage Digital: Who we are The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.Technical Skills:
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You may be a fit for this role if:
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
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